Example sentences of "[noun sg] unless it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the Tories certain to vote against such higher taxes , Labour would be defeated on the issue unless it gained power with an overall majority . |
| 2 | Nothing was worth doing unless it gave pleasure , he had argued in Ink . |
| 3 | Furthermore the plaintiff can not claim even for his private ( non-business ) property loss or damage unless it exceeds £275 . |
| 4 | Is it possible for the Church of England to proclaim this redemption with integrity and conviction in our day unless it ordains women as well as men as priests ? |
| 5 | More chaos awaits the Soviet Union unless it ditches perestroika for a Thatcherite purge of its economy |
| 6 | Premier John Major and President George Bush also threatened to cut all Serbia 's links with the outside world unless it stopped atrocities . |
| 7 | Other examples of rules which may not be congruent with the requirements of fiduciary law are SIB Core Rule 2 , which states that where a firm has a material interest it must not knowingly act for the customer unless it takes steps to ensure his " fair treatment " ( this may not be sufficient under fiduciary law ) , and SIB Core Rule 25 which in conjunction with SFA Conduct of Business Rule 5 — 36(2) permits " front running " . |
| 8 | When the private firm is very large , and therefore subject to little domestic competition , and also produces in a sector sheltered from imports and foreign competition , it is quite likely to be a relatively sleepy monopolist unless it has regulators to whom it must account . |
| 9 | The most constructive move was when Linda Bellos stood up and announced that she thought that the group was a complete waste of time unless it had power , and to have power it would have to be a Council Committee with the right to interfere in all other committees . |
| 10 | Nor are the damns always so faint , though they are of course almost always uttered with that tendentious hindsight which devalues protest unless it proclaims class warfare and anticipates the emergence by the twentieth century of political parties created to prosecute it . |
| 11 | , The EC Commission has also warned the Italian government that it may face legal action in the Court of Justice unless it takes steps to improve drinking water standards in the provinces of Lombardy , Piedmont , Veneto and Emilia Romagna . |